Yeah well, i'm over the shock now. She's not gonna die. And if she did sales would go up. She'd be a martyr. Bigger in death than in life, which shows how flawed the system is.
On the other hand, as much as it drives me crazy, she'll probably go on to become a spokeswoman for the cancer foundation or something and help to raise heaps of money. Which is good cause the charity will recieve money, but shits me cause i think if you really cared you would have donated already.
And then it takes away from proper charities like oxfam and the red cross who actually help people with solvable problems.

you know my road only too well - was a bit worried there I'd be e-attacked for sounding homophobic - was just commenting on the cynical manipulation of people's money via sexuality - but whatever - let's talk about terris or something!

Actually I can't hate Kylie. I kind of did back in my school days when she was with Stock Aitkin and Waterman, but since then I've always been struck by what a thoroughly nice and interesting person she seems to be in interviews.

I also respect her ability to survive in an industry that doesn't like that, her dalliances in some slightly obscure stuff. That said, I don't know that there are any Kylie tracks I actually like.

I tend to respect (though I don't like) Madonna in a similar way, but then there are three or four random Madge tracks I like.

yes in suchsober and sombre moments you have to separate the disease from the diva

Jesus did I really just say that?

to be fair I dislike her or 'her people' for cynical sacking all her interesting ideas and then thinking- 'let's just sell to the tacky/pink pound type crowd' - there was a time when even NME thought her as a serious artist!

You see I don't know much about that. From an outside point of view I would say that she tried some stuff and it failed. The indie thing wasn't that good, but at least (from my recollection) she tried it in 'good' way, rather than Sporty Spice who seems to approach it with a huge arsenal of publicity behind her.

I'm not sure when Kylie was a 'serious artist', though. I don't think the modern stuff is massively cynical - just her doing stuff that sells. After all she's now doing pop songs written by big pop song writers. In her 'indie' days she did songs written by people like James Dean Bradfield.

And I also think she sells to the hetero non-tacky audience to a large degree by doing videos in those hot-pants! I'm not really convinced her modern stuff is even all that tacky. If she's making 'pink pounds' it's because she's one of the best at what she's doing. I would genuinely say the songs I've heard her push are cut above the sort of pop shit I hear from S Club and their ilk.